Mihai Pătraşcu 1982–2012
A pathbreaking researcher taken too soon from us (src) Mihai Pătraşcu passed away on Tuesday of brain cancer, having not yet reached age 30. We, Dick and Ken, did not know about his year-…
Waking up at 5am to code
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Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)
About a month ago I moved to Stockholm, Sweden and started working at Spotify . A month before starting I was asked about my preferred setup for working. Having used OS X for year as the primary operating system at work the choice was clear, I wanted to go back to Linux, in this case to Debian to be exact.
This is why I don't give you a job
I could hire 12 people with €760 net salary, but I don't. I'll tell you why. You could work for my service provider company in a nice office. It's not telemarketing, it's not a scam. You would do serious work that requires high skills, 8 hours a day, weekdays only. I would employ you legally, I…
Bye Bye Craigslist
More apartments across the US and Canada than you can ever imagine!
Startup = Growth
September 2012 A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups…
Go version 1 is released
A major milestone: announcing Go 1, the first stable version of Go.
Why three prongs?
Why do AC cords need three prongs? If there is no positive or negative in AC systems, why do we have HOT and NEUTRAL? I attempt to shed light on some of these mysteries.
The Most Revealing Job Interview Question
Not all SaaS referral programs are built the same. Learn how B2B SaaS, consumer SaaS, and partner programs each need a different approach, plus examples.
Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket
Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today, we’re introducing granular step-level permissions and container tokens in Bitbucket…
Right versus pragmatic
At a previous job, the shared men’s bathroom for the floor was laid out like this:
The next SOPA
Every few years, the MPAA’s lobbying power, rhetoric, and immense campaign contributions succeed in purchasing a bill in Congress to advance their agenda in a way that’s hostile to the technology industry and consumers.
Cars kill cities
OK, I’m finally getting a chance to make another post. I have temporarily relocated to Mountain View, CA and have been up to my eyeballs in work, both ‘real’ work and research wo…
How I made $500k with machine learning and high frequency trading
How I made $500k from high frequency trading using machine learning to optimize a trading algorithm for Russell 2000 and DAX futures, trading independently without working for a quant firm.
Backdoor found in a China-made US military chip
The latest news on hardware security research and achievements